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I just thought I would post a "news" story about a couple of college graduates. They actually started looking for a work a year before they graduated, did internships and created personal networks of professionals working in diverse industries. Imagine that.
Daniel Howard landed three job offers during his senior year at Southern Methodist University, ultimately accepting a position with Citigroup in Irving, the third-largest bank holding company in the U.S. He credits the internships on his résumé and believes a student with experience will beat out a competitor with a higher grade-point average any day.
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“Often young people graduate with degrees that are not specific to specific jobs,” Davis said. “It is very likely that those people are going to have to find their own way in the world and will end up doing a job that surprises them, but that they are good at.”
Rodolfo Guzman’s job search brought just such a pleasant surprise. The 2011 graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas was looking for a position in electrical or telecom engineering but ended up at Tektronix Communications, a network services provider in Plano.
“The job I landed was a little bit different than what I expected it to be,” he said, “but I quickly adapted.”
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Cates and Austin both agreed that the job hunt can’t begin at graduation but should start a year earlier. “It involves so much more than simply cranking out a résumé and posting it online,” Austin said. “They have to be engaged in the process by junior year at the latest.”
But beginning the process early is no guarantee that the job hunt will be quick and painless once students graduate.
“Companies are definitely hiring, but the process is just taking longer,” Cates said.
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
I just thought I would post a "news" story about a couple of college graduates. They actually started looking for a work a year before they graduated, did internships and created personal networks of professionals working in diverse industries. Imagine that.
Yup, you really have to be creative and set yourself apart from others to land a decent job nowadays.
It is really difficult to get a job based on academic qualifications alone unless you have an engineering or computer science degree from at least a decent school with at least a decent GPA.
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Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
He could be working in human resources, EAP, crunching statistics, or doing human factors research. If he's not doing any of those, it makes me wonder what he is doing and if his job even requires a degree.
Is it considered unusual or particularly proactive to look for a job a year before graduating? If so, then that's part of the problem.
I spent my entire senior year interviewing for jobs and I had accepted a job offer before the start of my spring semester. I know the market is not as good now, but taking the initiative to interview early was not something unique to me; every person I knew was doing that.
Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
I don't know if he's actually making surgical tools, but if he is, so what? He's making more of a contribution to society than any MBA type I know..
Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
You realize that the company has adminsitrative positions? Marketing, sales, general admin, etc.
Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
Psychology typically requires a higher level degree. There are tons of people with a psychology undergrad.
Sad when someone spends four years studying psychology and ends up satisfied with making tools. I don't suppose he's counseling the workers there?
Xavier Cinque, who graduated from the University of North Texas in 2011 with a degree in psychology, said he worked at a grocery store and a restaurant before finding a satisfying job last month with a surgical tool manufacturer.
Surgical tools are a pretty large business when you consider all of the government contracts. Psychology can fit in as market decisions are not always clear cut and dry. Might be making a business plan, a marketing plan, negociating a contract and the list goes on and on.
Congresswomen Gillenbrand was a Mandarine major in college so frankly I don't think a major 100% dictates where someone goes.
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